[ExI] How new AI economics might change our systems

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2026-09-22 16:29, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> If you have never seen a flock of starlings performing murmuration, 
> find
> videos on it.
> 
> Is not what we (humanity) are doing right now analogous to starlings 
> doing
> what they do so well?  We make our predictions of the future always 
> (over?)
> estimating momentum of populations.  Yet somehow we all seem to turn in
> unison, simultaneously, with some kind of signal which is universal and 
> hard
> to identify.  Watch the videos you found, see if you can predict what 
> the
> flock will next.  I can't either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJqdmkjSD2A

One would certainly never predict a murmuring flock of birds would 
suddenly crash into the ground at full speed. But no flock of birds is 
perfect.

Stuart LaForge